13 Facts About Wayne Eagling

Wayne Eagling was born on 27 November 1950 and is a Canadian ballet dancer, now retired.

Wayne John Eagling was born in Montreal, Quebec, to Anglophone parents, Edward and Thelma Eagling.

Wayne Eagling spent much of his childhood and youth in California, where his family had moved.

Wayne Eagling moved to England in the late 1960s, when "swinging London, " the vibrant cultural phenomenon of fashion, popular music, and entertainment, was at its peak.

Wayne Eagling performed the leading roles of princes, gallants, and swains in the nineteenth-century classics—partnering with dancers including Margot Fonteyn, Jennifer Penney, and Merle Park—but he was best known for his work in the twentieth-century repertory.

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Wayne Eagling danced the role of Crown Prince Rudolf in the New York premiere of MacMillan's Mayerling in April 1983.

Wayne Eagling danced in ballets by Frederick Ashton, George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, and Rudolf Nureyev, among others.

Wayne Eagling was especially admired as Balanchine's Apollo, as Woyzeck in MacMillan's Different Drummer, and as the Chosen One in Glen Tetley's The Rite of Spring, the first male dancer to undertake that dramatic role.

In 1991, Wayne Eagling retired from dancing and took up the post of artistic director of Het Nationale Ballet in Amsterdam.

In December 2005, Wayne Eagling was appointed artistic director of the English National Ballet in London, where he continued to invent new stage works.

Wayne Eagling created numerous roles in the works of Sir Kenneth MacMillan and other choreographers.

Wayne Eagling can be seen dancing on three DVDs that are commercially available.

Wayne Eagling can be seen performing the "Four Seasons" ballet from Giuseppe Verdi's opera I vespri siciliani, in a production from the Teatro alla Scala, opposite Carla Fracci to choreography by Micha van Hoecke.